Getting your local weather forcast with your Eee

This little tidbit of code will display a weather forecast for whatever zipcode you put in (US Only).

Just copy/paste the code between the lines into an editor (vi, vim, nano, whatever!) and save it as weather.sh – then type chmod 766 weather.sh

It does rely on lynx, so, you may need to install that ahead of time.
( yum install lynx   or   apt-get install lynx  )

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#!/bin/sh

# weather – report weather forecast, including lat/long, for zip

llurl=”http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer?city=&state=&zip=”
wxurl=”http://wwwa.accuweather.com”
wxurl=”$wxurl/adcbin/public/local_index_print.asp?zipcode=”

if [ "$1" = "-a" ] ; then
size=999; shift
else
size=5
fi

if [ $# -eq 0 ] ; then
echo “Usage: $0 [-a] zipcode” >&2
exit 1
fi

if [ $size -eq 5 ] ; then
echo “”

# get some information on the zipcode from the Census Bureau

lynx -source “${llurl}$1″ | \
sed -n ‘/^<li><strong>/,/^Location:/p’ | \
sed ’s/<[^>]*>//g;s/^ //g’
fi

# the weather forecast itself at accuweather.com

lynx -source “${wxurl}$1″ | \
sed -n ‘/Start – Forecast Cell/,/End – Forecast Cell/p’ | \
sed ’s/<[^>]*>//g;s/^ [ ]*//g’ | \
uniq | \
head -$size

exit 0

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It’s quick, fast, and doesn’t use any resources. Just what one needs for the Eee!

Have fun… well, as much fun as you can have looking up forecasts, populations, and what not…